The arrival of the amazement -With Turkish pilot Toprak RazgatlıogluOne of the great figures of the Superbike World Cup, is waiting, but Yamaha has finally convinced “El Turco”, the Spanish name that brings their monkey, so it has been dedicated to them in recent years in recent years
From the Gerno in Lesmo, the Italy’s Chief of Italy of the Japanese brand of three, it was just the toprak’s signing of Pramac Yamaha where Australian pilots Jack Miller and the Portuguese Miguel Oliveira and one of them should give the square to the Turkish star. Of the two ending the contract in 2025 was ‘Aussie’ which, however, was Yamaha’s second best pilot in the classification of MOTOGP -16º with 31 points. Yamaha said that “more details will be announced soon about the shirt of the Prima Yamaha Motogp Prima Team by 2026”.
“Yamaha Motor Co, LTD is pleased to announce the return of the Toprak Razgatlıoğlu, the current champion of the WorldSBK and WorldSBK champion in 2021 with Yamaha, to Yamaha in the 2026 period, which led to Motogp with the Prima Pramac Yamaha Motogp Team.”
“After a stellar path to the Fim Superbike World Championship (2018-2025), where he was crowned the WorldSBK champion and became the second pilot with the most success of all time, with 63 to this day, Razgatlıoğlu is ready to face a new challenge in the Motogp Queen category.”
“The integration of the Razgatlıoğlu in the Prima Pramac Yamaha Motogp Team, which is sponsored by the factory and the consequence of collaboration between Yamaha and Pramac, is a strategic decision that allows the Turkish pilot to show their unique talent at the top of the motorcycle.”
The arrival of Toprak in the MotOGP World Cup has been a repeated rumor since 2019 it has become one of the stars of the motorcycle championship originating in the series, of which in 28 years it has been 237 races. His passport (Turk) was not the most sweet in this case, because his personality made him one of the most beloved pilots and his results, including Yamaha and BMW, they became legendary. In the day of 2022 and spring of 2023, throughout Yamaha’s technical crisis, he came to perform two private trials with MotOGP, but did not set the idea and even the Turk left Yamaha to sign for BMW, for whom the pilot is now.
At this time the Turkish pilot approach and his manager, former pilot Kenan Sofuoglu, was more convinced of the Yamaha motor, who offered him a factory contract and was given it to the pramac.
“We are glad to accept the Yamaha family again. Toprak, the Yamaha pilot with more successes in superbikes all the time, has proven to be a rare talent, which has captured the WorldSBK title twice, with no small thing.”
“His move to MotoGP is both back home and a new and kapana -excited new challenge, conceived with a clear purpose of progressive growth. His spirit of struggle and determination perfectly fit both in the Prima Pramac Yamaha Motogp Team and the Bold Yamaha Strategy at Motogp, so we believe that 2026 is the perfect time to do the director of the Jump the Lans. Pavesio, Yama Motor Racing Director,
The Turk, exultant
It was through the BMW statement in which Toprak showed about his jump in Motogp with Yamaha: “It was my always dream of running for Motogp, and I was excited that this dream came true.”
“However, returning home to BMW Motorrad Motorsport will not be easy. I am very grateful for the time we shared. From the first trial, I felt at home, and as a team, we achieved good things. Not only were they the successes and the title I will never forget, but also the intense and well -known team working on the project that led to the top.
The news will only come on the day the official team confirmed that Ducati Superbike Niccolo Bahaga, Toprak’s great rival, has been renewing for a year, but will challenge his work with the Tester of the MotOGP Prototype 2027 that provides the championate path from regulatory change. It was also learned that they would not carry out the Renewal Clause of their world -Threatening World, Alvaro Bautista, which Burgo Sideale will remove by the end of 2025.
Source: La Verdad
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